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Re: [Ayatana] Presence via Me Menu



On 09/09/10 11:00, Frederik Nnaji wrote:
> I was hoping Mission Control 5 in Telepathy would make it possible to
> change back to "online", "away" or "busy", even when Empathy says my
> accounts are "offline".
> Another thing is, that i'm being logged out, not sent offline. My
> computer is still online, it's just that IM accounts are being logged out.
> This is why i don't understand the use case of "offline", if all it
> does is actually "log out".
>
> If offline was to be a state of Presence, it would be better if i
> could alternate between "offline" and the other states of Presence via
> the MeMenu directly.
> Now remains the question, why in the implementation the Presence part
> of the MeMenu is "disabled" when all Empathy-configured accounts are
> "offline"..
>

Sorry for the response to old email, but I didn't see a follow-up.

If empathy is not running, you should be able to launch it simply by
changing your status to Available or another online state. In other
words, the states should be achievable even if that means first starting
empathy.

Mark

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